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BASILICA MARCIANAE—BASILICA OPIMIA
In the time of Pope Simplicius (468-483) the hall was dedicated by
the munificence of the Goth Valila (or Flavius Theodobius) as the
church of S. Andrea cata Barbara Patricia (LP xlviii. i).
Drawings of the fine decorations in marble and mosaic were made
by Giuliano da Sangallo (Barb. 3iv- and text, p. 47) and at the end of
the sixteenth century (see Hiilsen in Festschrift fur Julius Schlosser
(Vienna, 1926), 53-67, at the end of which a list of the drawings is given ;
add Windsor, Portfolio 5, No. 60 (Inv. 12121), for which see PBS vi. 186,
n. 2; and Hoikham, ii. 8, 9, II ; Baddeley xciv., for which see PBS
viii. 40, 49 ; Caylus 30, which represents the mosaic of the triumphator) ;
and two of the mosaics are still in the Palazzo Massimi (MD 4114, 4115)
and two more in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Cons. 260, 264, q.v. for
full bibliography).
See BCr 1871, 5-29, 41-64 ; 1899, 171-179 ; BC 1893, 89-104 ; PBS
vi. 186-188 ; viii. 49 ; Arm. 815 ; HJ 337 ; HCh 179-181, 585.
Basilica Marcianae mentioned in Reg. as in Region IX and in Pol.
Basilica Matidiae : J Silv. (545). These halls were undoubtedly near
the Templum Matidiae (q.v.), and from the evidence of a medallion
of Hadrian (Eckhel vi. p. 472 ; Gnecchi ii. p. 5, No. 25, pl. 39, No. 5)
they seem to have stood on each side of the area in front (north) of this
temple, a little back from the east and west sides of the present Piazza
Capranica ; while the domed building known as the Tempio di Siepe
in the seventeenth century may have had a corresponding building
opposite to it, each standing at the north end of one of these two
basilicas, as Hiilsen supposes. It cannot have given its name to the
church of S. Stefano de Trullo, which was near the Hadrianeum
(LS i. 132; HCh 485; BC 1883, 5-16; Mitt. 1899, 141-153; HJ 575;
Hiilsen in OJ 1912, 136-142; RA 134).
Basilica Maxentii : see Basilica Constantine
Basilica Neptuni : a building restored by Hadrian (Hist. Aug. 19), and
mentioned in Cur. in Region IX and in Pol. Silv. (545). This basilica is now
generally, and properly, identified with the στόα Hocreio<wo<? built by
Agrippa in 25 b.c. (Cass. Dio liii. 27), and with the Ποσ-βΗώνίοΐ' that was
burned in the great fire in the reign of Titus (ib. lxvi. 24) and stood
between the Pantheon and the Hadrianeum. By some it has also been
identified with the Porticus Argonautarum (q.v.), but it is probable
that they were separate structures, although near together and possibly
adjoining (Lucas, Zur Geschichte der Neptunsbasilika, Berlin 1904;
OJ 1912, 132-135).
Basilica Nova : see Basilica Constantine
Basilica Opimia : erected probably by the consul L. Opimius in 121 b.c.,
at the same time that he restored the temple of Concord. The basilica
must have stood just north of the temple, between it and the Tullianum
(Varro, LL v. 156), and it was probably removed when Tiberius rebuilt
A.D.R.
F
In the time of Pope Simplicius (468-483) the hall was dedicated by
the munificence of the Goth Valila (or Flavius Theodobius) as the
church of S. Andrea cata Barbara Patricia (LP xlviii. i).
Drawings of the fine decorations in marble and mosaic were made
by Giuliano da Sangallo (Barb. 3iv- and text, p. 47) and at the end of
the sixteenth century (see Hiilsen in Festschrift fur Julius Schlosser
(Vienna, 1926), 53-67, at the end of which a list of the drawings is given ;
add Windsor, Portfolio 5, No. 60 (Inv. 12121), for which see PBS vi. 186,
n. 2; and Hoikham, ii. 8, 9, II ; Baddeley xciv., for which see PBS
viii. 40, 49 ; Caylus 30, which represents the mosaic of the triumphator) ;
and two of the mosaics are still in the Palazzo Massimi (MD 4114, 4115)
and two more in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Cons. 260, 264, q.v. for
full bibliography).
See BCr 1871, 5-29, 41-64 ; 1899, 171-179 ; BC 1893, 89-104 ; PBS
vi. 186-188 ; viii. 49 ; Arm. 815 ; HJ 337 ; HCh 179-181, 585.
Basilica Marcianae mentioned in Reg. as in Region IX and in Pol.
Basilica Matidiae : J Silv. (545). These halls were undoubtedly near
the Templum Matidiae (q.v.), and from the evidence of a medallion
of Hadrian (Eckhel vi. p. 472 ; Gnecchi ii. p. 5, No. 25, pl. 39, No. 5)
they seem to have stood on each side of the area in front (north) of this
temple, a little back from the east and west sides of the present Piazza
Capranica ; while the domed building known as the Tempio di Siepe
in the seventeenth century may have had a corresponding building
opposite to it, each standing at the north end of one of these two
basilicas, as Hiilsen supposes. It cannot have given its name to the
church of S. Stefano de Trullo, which was near the Hadrianeum
(LS i. 132; HCh 485; BC 1883, 5-16; Mitt. 1899, 141-153; HJ 575;
Hiilsen in OJ 1912, 136-142; RA 134).
Basilica Maxentii : see Basilica Constantine
Basilica Neptuni : a building restored by Hadrian (Hist. Aug. 19), and
mentioned in Cur. in Region IX and in Pol. Silv. (545). This basilica is now
generally, and properly, identified with the στόα Hocreio<wo<? built by
Agrippa in 25 b.c. (Cass. Dio liii. 27), and with the Ποσ-βΗώνίοΐ' that was
burned in the great fire in the reign of Titus (ib. lxvi. 24) and stood
between the Pantheon and the Hadrianeum. By some it has also been
identified with the Porticus Argonautarum (q.v.), but it is probable
that they were separate structures, although near together and possibly
adjoining (Lucas, Zur Geschichte der Neptunsbasilika, Berlin 1904;
OJ 1912, 132-135).
Basilica Nova : see Basilica Constantine
Basilica Opimia : erected probably by the consul L. Opimius in 121 b.c.,
at the same time that he restored the temple of Concord. The basilica
must have stood just north of the temple, between it and the Tullianum
(Varro, LL v. 156), and it was probably removed when Tiberius rebuilt
A.D.R.
F